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6. By trolley car, on the Southern Boulevard to Pelham 
Avenue. This line connects with lines from the southern 
and southeastern parts of The Bronx. 
7. By driveways in Mosholu Parkway from Van Cort- 
landt Park; from Pelham Bay Park through Pelham Park- 
way; through the Crotona Parkway and Southern Boule- 
vard from Crotona Park; there are also driveway entrances 
at 200th Street, convenient for carriages coming from 
Jerome Avenue; at Newell Avenue, at the northern end of 
the Garden, for carriages coming from the north; at 
Allerton Avenue on the eastern side of the Garden for 
carriages coming from the east; and at the Woodlawn Road, 
convenient for carriages coming from Yonkers, and ion 
other points west arid northwest of the Garden: there are 
three driveway entrances from Pelham Avenue. 
he White Plains Avenue Extension of the Subway, 
with three stations east of the Garden is approaching 
completion. 
Purposes 
The New York Botanical Garden was established by an 
Act of the Legislature of the State of New York passed in 
1891 and amended in 1894 “for the purpose of establishing 
and maintaining a Botanical Garden and Museum and 
Arboretum therein, for the collection and culture of plants, 
flowers, shrubs and trees, the advancement of botanical 
science and knowledge, and the prosecution of original 
researches therein and in kindred subjects, for affording 
instruction in the same, for the prosecution and exhibition 
of ornamental and decorative horticulture and gardening, 
and for the entertainment, recreation and instruction of the 
people.” 
General Plan 
Features of especial interest are: 
1. The largest conservatories in America, for the cultiva- 
tion of plants of tropical regions, one located near the en- 
trance at the elevated railway station, and a second very 
